Lourdes Carmelo

I’ll collected artifacts in my travels, my walks, in my day to day, I keep them and hope to find the time to restore the prominence it once had, remember the value of their past and hear again the story told , which generates the memory.

Memory can blur memories and, in the effort to not forget, I restore past with patches, inch by inch, until finally there is a new object to join the past and the present, and sometimes the future.

My friend Lourdes Carmelo is a jeweler and member of the Joyas Sensacionales collective coordinated by Silvia Walz. She recently participated in the exhibitions “En Tránsito” at Institut Cervantes in Munich during Schmuck 2015 and “Yo te cuento, tu me miras” at Sala Perill in Barcelona. I admire her work, especially this recent series based on pieces made from fragments of one of her son’s violins. We are planing an exhibition together next November in Girona.